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The nakedly predatory user-hostile nature of many large actors on the web really gave them no choice.
by owlbite 5y ago
The nakedly predatory user-hostile nature of many large actors on the web really gave them no choice.
- bin_bash 5y agoDo you think it's that or they'd prefer to get their 30% cut of transactions?
- KerrAvon 5y agoI think it's that. Remember that Steve Jobs didn't want third party apps on the iPhone and had to be talked into it.
- ace2358 5y agoRight, the original story was write web apps. So Apple has changed tunes on this topic before.
- bccdee 5y agoSteve Jobs is dead, and Apple's primary responsibility is to its shareholders, not its users. Subtly and pervasively hamstringing PWAs doesn't protect users. What would it even be protecting them from? PWAs that work well offline? No, it just coerces developers into writing native apps and distributing them through Apple's App Store instead.
- wbear 5y agoWhile being locked in to a single app store without jailbreak isn't ideal, I'd rather have a native app on my phone than some lowest-bidder web app that downloads 10MB every time and runs terribly.